On that day,” declares the Lord, “I will strike every horse with confusion and its rider with insanity. But I will [a]watch over the house of Judah, while I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. Then the [b]clans of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are a [c]strong support for us through the Lord of armies, their God.’

“On that day I will make the [d]clans of Judah like a (A)firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves, so they will consume on the right and on the left all the surrounding peoples, while [e]the (B)inhabitants of Jerusalem again live on their own sites in Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 12:4 Lit open My eyes
  2. Zechariah 12:5 Or chiefs
  3. Zechariah 12:5 Lit strength for me
  4. Zechariah 12:6 Or chiefs
  5. Zechariah 12:6 Lit Jerusalem...is again inhabited on its

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